"I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: ‘My son did this to me.’ I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: ‘I forgive my son.’ Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand."
~~ Mother Theresa of Calcutta
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Alas, the human heart is able to be broken more than once but once is enough to leave it damaged for all time.
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ReplyDeleteYou know, if i wasn't as respectful as I am, which ain't much, I too could tell a story about picking up a woman from a garbage dump, in fact more than once. But The good Mother is holy and not to be trifled with and I hope to follow her example in some small way.
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